An innate twist between Crick's wobble and Watson-Crick base pairs

RNA

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1038-1053

  Ananth, Prakash ^a   Goldsmith, Gunaseelan ^a   Yathindra, Narayanarao ^a  

^a Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology   (India)

Author keywords

Non Watson Crick pairs; Nonisosteric base pairs; Radial difference; Residual twist; Self isosteric base pairs; Wobble pairs

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA; RNA;

ALPHA HELIX; BASE PAIRING; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; CRICK WOBBLE BASE PAI; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HUMAN; HYDROGEN BOND; ISOSTERICITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; NONISOSTERCITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REVIEW; VALIDATION PROCESS; WATSON CRICK BASE PAIR;

NON-WATSON-CRICK PAIRS; NONISOSTERIC BASE PAIRS; RADIAL DIFFERENCE; RESIDUAL TWIST; SELF-ISOSTERIC BASE PAIRS; WOBBLE PAIRS;

BASE PAIRING; BINDING SITES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 84880674471     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.036905.112     Document Type: Review

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